Hey there, I’m
Akash Hamirwasia.
I'm passionate about building innovative products on the web keeping good design in mind. I like learning new technologies, and contributing to open source.
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About Me
Hey! I’m Akash, a creative 22-year-old who loves building products with code.
Since then, I have been working on improving my skills in Web development. I decided to dip my feet in web development because I wanted to build products that were easily accessible to anyone on any device. It always motivates me when I hear how my project has helped someone solve their problem.
I completed my undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering from PES University. Most of the things I build or learn is still driven by curiosity even today. My most recent obsession has been building compilers, parsers and I’m always open to talk about front-end development, user interface design and open source!
Experience
- Software Development Engineer @ Razorpay
July 2022 — Now
- Software Development Engineering Intern @ Razorpay
January 2022 — July 2022
- Software Engineering Intern @ Akamai Technologies
May 2021 — July 2021
- Frontend Engineering Intern @ smallcase
May 2020 — August 2020
- Project Intern @ PES Innovation Lab
June 2019 — July 2019
My Skills
I constantly learn new and exciting concepts in computer science and web development. I try applying these concepts to solve real-world problems. Few technologies I enjoy working with:
- TypeScript
- HTML, CSS
- React, Next.js
- Vue
- Node.js
- Python
- Prisma
- Firebase
My Projects
Blaze
A peer-to-peer file-sharing web app I built to solve a problem I faced while transferring files from my phone to my laptop without having to upload files to a cloud account or download specific file-sharing apps.
Blaze became the #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt and gets about 900 weekly views. DigitalOcean is sponsoring the infrastructure for this project. Technologies I learned while building Blaze:
- Preact
- WebSockets
- WebTorrent
- Express
- Docker
- DigitalOcean
Pigmnts
An image to color palette generator I built to learn the Rust programming language and WebAssembly. The project also introduced me to various clustering algorithms and I further expanded it to a full-fledged product that anyone can use to create visually appealing color palettes.
Pigmnts is available as a browser extension, web app, CLI tool, library for Rust and JavaScript using WebAssembly. It has a free and a pro plan with extra features.
- Rust
- Web Assembly
- CLI development
- K-Means++
- Next.js
- TypeScript
UnTab
A productivity tool I built to manage a lot of tabs open on our browser. UnTab provides a beautiful search interface to search tabs, bookmarks, history and also perform quick actions with just a few keystrokes.
I built UnTab in the FOSS Hack 2020 and it was one of the winning projects. UnTab is available as an extension for both Chrome and Firefox. UnTab has a powerful themes and plugins API that makes it possible for anyone to extend UnTab’s feature set.
- Svelte
- Fuse.js
- Rollup
- Browser Extension
- Framer Motion
- Tailwind CSS
Talks & Workshops
I conduct talks and workshops to share my experience in different fields with the community and network with like-minded peers. This quote keeps me going — “The best way to learn is to teach”.
Blog
I document my learnings from building projects on my blog with the hope that it will help fellow curious developers like me. Though it takes time to write these blogs, I always come out with more understanding of the topic than I originally started with.
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Let’s get in touch
I’m open to hearing about new opportunities. Feel free to reach out to me if you have a question, or just want to say hi!
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